Weekly Round Up: When to Fold 'Em

 

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads. In this week's edition I'll show you what we've been eating lately and bring you up to speed on my running situation.

2022 State of the Run

 

New Year, New State of the Run post.  Join me as I dive in to The Year of the Whatever and come up with my grand "what's next" plan.

2021 State of the Run

 

It's that time again!  Let's review where my running shoes took me this year and where they will go from here.

2020 State of the Run

Before we get started
I am not qualified to give advice on any subject let alone running.  This is what works for me and the trials and errors that got me here.  The only thing I know for sure is that you should do you.

My Running Plans for 2019 (here)

• Run > 1,000 miles
• Do the Strava Lululemon challenge in January
• Run six races: my first half marathon (!), another half marathon, two 5ks, a 10k, a marathon relay (5 miles) for 43.6 miles of racing.

What actually happened in 2019

• All of the above and so much more

Weekly Sweats: My Running Backstory

I did something this weekend that to the best of my memory I haven't done since 2011: back to back 6 mile runs.  That put me on memory lane and the path to telling my running backstory.

Weekly Sweats: What's it's like to run a half marathon with a cold

Alright friends, the last time we left off I'd had several strong weeks of training under my belt and was feeling pretty cocky about half marathon #3.  Here's what happened from there:

All About the Women's Running 10 Week Training Program to Boost Your Speed

This summer I shook up my workout routine with the Women's Running 10 Week Training Program to Boost Your Speed.  My mile time improved by over 30 seconds, I learned a ton, and came away with all kinds of thoughts and plans for my future running.

Everything that I could ever tell you about my first half marathon

My first half marathon was last month.  In a nutshell:
1.  I did everything within my control to prepare for a great race.
2.  Something happened outside of my control that made my first half marathon not so great.

Weekly Eats: Dinner for Two Edition

A weekly roundup: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  In this week's adventures, there were a lot of dinners for two, we tried a new chicken burger, I have a plan to increase my running speed, and wow do I have a good book to tell you about.

Weekly Eats: Air Fryer Pizzadilla Edition

A weekly roundup: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  Air fryer pizzadilla edition.

Weekly Eats: Spelling Bee Edition

A weekly roundup: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  Meal planning went on the back burner.  Up front: work, kid stuff, a trip to Trader Joe's, a rare TJ disappointment, a lot of TV watching and oh yeah that half marathon thing.  But first let's talk about spelling.

Weekly Eats: Treat Week and a 5k PR

A weekly roundup: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  Warning: this one is going to be all over the place, because I have amazing food things to tell you about, such as making chicken parmesan in the air fryer, margarita cupcakes, cookie cakes, and ice cream cakes and I also have an amazing running thing to tell you about, such as a 'lil 30 second 5k PR.  So fasten your seat belts and we'll get started...

That time I ran a 10 mile race

I'm running my first half marathon next month.  That's a big step up for someone who's run quite a few 5ks, five 10ks, and had never run more than 6.2 miles prior to 2018.  If only there were some way to do a trial run at a longer race distance to gauge how prepared I am to run a half...oh wait there is.  Last month Alexis wrote about doing a 10 mile race in preparation for her 2nd half marathon.  I read her post and thought wow, what a good idea.

Then I learned about a 10 mile race in my area very close to where the half marathon is, and you never saw anyone register for a race so fast.

Weekly Eats: 4 seconds edition

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  First 10k of the year edition, which was just 4 seconds slower than my PR time.

Weekly Eats, I finished the Strava Lululemon challenge, and an epic chicken burritio bowl

So much to tell you, so little time...I had an epic week of lunches thanks to the crockpot, I finished the Strava Lululemon challenge, and we celebrated a very special birthday.

Weekly Eats and how the Strava Lululemon challenge is going

Hey, four days down and halfway to 80 km!

2019 State of the Run

I never set out to write about running, but here we are.  There have been just a few changes this year.